Mitch McConnell has responded to President Trump’s impeachment with a speech on the Senate floor. During the speech, McConnell slammed Nancy Pelosi’s shoddy work and said that she was afraid to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

According to Fox News:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set the stage Thursday for a potentially bruising fight between the leadership of the two chambers over impeachment, as he tore into Nancy Pelosi for “shoddy work” and said Democrats may be “too afraid” to send the articles to the Senate after the House speaker abruptly held off on transmitting them.

“This particular House of Representatives has let its partisan rage at this particular president create a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future,” McConnell said on the floor, accusing Democrats of giving into “temptation” with their impeachment vote while challenging their handling of the articles in the aftermath.

…

McConnell decried the effort, for which no Republicans voted, as “the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.” It taps into long-standing complaints by Republicans that the impeachment has trampled over minority rights in the House, and that Democrats were pursuing an outcome they have preordained before Trump was even sworn into office.

After an impeachment in the House, the articles are normally sent over to the upper chamber for an impeachment trial. Yet in the latest twist, Pelosi has indicated that she may not send over articles of impeachment yet — until she gets reassurances about the Senate process.

McConnell’s major dig at Pelosi is when he suggested that Pelosi and the Democrats are afraid to transmit their shoddy work to the Senate.